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トム・ウェッセルマン（Tom Wesselmann）作『Smoker #9』
美術館のキャプション Smoker #9 isolates a model's sensual mouth, removing it from a social context and even from her body. The painting's slick surface looks li…
ゲルハルト・リヒター（Gerhard Richter）作『Betty』
美術館のキャプション
Gerhard Richter based this painting on a 1978 photograph he took of his daughter Betty when she was 11 years old. The girl's position is partially posed, but also spontaneous as she turns a
トム・ウェッセルマン（Tom Wesselmann）作『Smoker #9』
美術館のキャプション
Smoker #9 isolates a model's sensual mouth, removing it from a social context and even from her body. The painting's slick surface looks like a billboard advertisement. In the 1960s and 70'
ギュスターヴ・カイユボット（Gustave Caillebotte）作『Yellow Roses in a Vase』
美術館のキャプション
A bouquet of yellow roses is set on a marble table against a dark ground. The flowers are shown full-blown, just at the moment when their lush, open petals have begun to drop. The intense d
ジェラルド・マーフィー（Gerald Murphy）作『Watch』
美術館のキャプション
The largest of Gerald Murphy's extant works, Watch is both personally symbolic and coolly analytical. The mechanical components in this painting come from two timepieces with biographical a
ホアキン・トーレス=ガルシア（Joaquín Torres-García）作『Cafe Riche, Paris』
美術館のキャプション
Painted during Torres-García's brief yet critical stay in Paris between 1926 and 1932, Cafe Riche, Paris evokes the sights and sensations of street life in the French capital through incred
ジャクソン・ポロック（Jackson Pollock）作『Figure Kneeling Before Arch with Skulls』＆ シケイロス（David Alfaro Siqueiros）作『Twilight』
美術館のキャプション
Jackson Pollock has been celebrated for his use of nontraditional materials and painting techniques in his action-style drip painting. It often goes under-acknowledged that Pollock was intr
ジャン・ミッシェル・バスキア（Jean-Michel Basquiat）作『Sam F』
美術館のキャプション
One of the most significant artists of the late 20th century, Basquiat gained notoriety in the late 1970s for the cryptic phrases he left on the walls of Manhattan with his collaborator Al
ジョージア・オキーフ（Georgia O'Keeffe）作『Bare Tree Trunks with Snow』
美術館のキャプション
Taking winter-stripped trees in upstate New York as her subject for this painting, O'Keeffe simplified what she saw, leaving only an exploration of shape and color. Throughout her career, s
カジミール・マレーヴィチ（Kazimir Malevich）作『Suprematist Composition: White on White』
美術館のキャプション
Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on White was one of the first paintings to propose that modern art need not refer to any reality outside of itself and that geometric forms could b
エリオ・オイチシカ（Hélio Oiticica）作『Neoconcrete Relief』
美術館のキャプション
Limited to two colors on shaped wood, Neoconcrete Relief diverges from the traditional format and function of a painting as a rectangular canvas on which figures or shapes are depicted. Ins
マン・レイ（Man Ray）作『The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows』
美術館のキャプション
Man Ray became dissatisfied with his original composition for this work inspired by a tightrope performance he had seen in a vaudeville show. He had originally arranged pieces of colored pa
レメディオス・ヴァロ（Remedios Varo）作『The Juggler (The Magician)』
美術館のキャプション
This painting's titular juggler (or magician) stands on the platform of a carnivalesque cart filled with fantastical objects and animals. He performs before seemingly identical figures robe
草間彌生（Yayoi Kusama）作『Accumulation No.1』
『MoMA NOW』
Accumulation No.1 is the first in an ongoing series of presciently feminist sculptures by Kusama. When the twenty-nine-years-old artist arrived in New York from Japan in 1958, she had alrea
エルンスト・ルートヴィヒ・キルヒナー（Ernst Ludwig Kirchner）『Street, Dresden』
美術館のキャプション
"The more I mixed with people the more I felt my loneliness," Kirchner once wrote. Here he depicted Dresden's fashionable Konigstrasse as a place that is crowded yet in which everyone seems
パブロ・ピカソ（Pablo Picasso）作『Two Nudes』
美術館のキャプション
The terra-cotta shades and heaviness of the figures in Two Nudes derive from Picasso's interest at the time in the ancient Iberian sculpture of his native Spain. These two women are nearly
パブロ・ピカソ（Pablo Picasso）作『"Ma Jolie"』
美術館のキャプション
"I love her very much and I will write this in my paintings," Picasso wrote in a letter about his lover Marcelle Humbert, who is depicted here. By inscribing "MA JOLIE" (my pretty one) on t